Microsoft Compliance Manager
Assess your compliance posture with Compliance Manager, interpret the compliance score, and create improvement actions mapped to specific regulatory controls.
What Is Compliance Manager?
Microsoft Compliance Manager is a tool within the Microsoft Purview compliance portal that helps organisations assess, monitor, and improve their compliance posture against regulatory frameworks. It provides a compliance score — a numeric measure of how well your organisation's controls align with the requirements of selected standards. Compliance Manager is available to organisations with Microsoft 365 or Azure subscriptions.
Accessing Compliance Manager
Compliance Manager is accessed through the Microsoft Purview compliance portal at compliance.microsoft.com. The home dashboard shows your overall compliance score, a breakdown by category (data protection, access control, incident management), and a list of assessments. You do not need to be a compliance expert to use the tool — it guides you step by step through the requirements of each standard.
# Access path:
# compliance.microsoft.com -> Compliance Manager
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# Permissions required:
# - Global Admin, Compliance Admin, or Compliance Data Admin role in Entra ID
# - Or Compliance Manager Assessor role for read-only + improvement actionsAll lessons in this course
- Azure Compliance Frameworks
- Microsoft Purview and Data Governance
- Microsoft Compliance Manager
- GDPR on Azure